[MlMt] OT: iOS mail client

[Antonio Leding]

Apologies if I missed this — and I’m not advocating using Spark (far 
from it) — but nowhere in any of Readdle’s (maker of Spark) policies 
nor their blog about privacy did I see where they actually store 
credentials on their servers.  They do say “Spark needs access to 
usernames & passwords” but I interpret this to mean the app which is 
the same for all IMAP clients most notably the one I am using right now 
- Mailmate.

If you have a different interpretation or know where I missed it, please 
share… :=)



On 5 Sep 2020, at 8:07, Charlie Garrison wrote:

> On 6 Sep 2020, at 0:13, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> If I understand this correctly, Spark's architecture requires them to
>> have access to your email passwords. To me, that's a complete
>> non-starter; your email password is the most important one you
>> have, since it can be used to reset all of your other passwords.
>
> That's an important distinction too. It's the difference between 
> giving someone the keys to your house (Spark) -vs- letting them peer 
> through the front door (Edison).
>
> I don't want anyone doing either, but they are still very different 
> risk profiles. It's not ok with me when companies hide either 
> behaviour.
>
> -cng
>
>
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>
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